Learning your ABCs and working out what each letter stood for became simpler thanks to French artist Joseph
Apoux (1846-1910). In 1880, Apoux gave the world of educational kamasutra his Pornographic Alphabet.
This theme would be later updated in 1971 with a flesh and bone people in a naked human alphabet for Avant
Garde Magazine.
Typography is an ancient and precise art form. In the Middle Ages, clergymen spent decades painstakingly
crafting the elaborate letters for medieval manuscripts. Today, people praise Helvetica, the art world’s favorite typeface, and make fun of the joke of typography, Comic Sans.
There’s a definite trend at the moment in illustrated and photographic alphabets made from women’s bodies.